Built for the gym Exercise.com couldn't build for.
From kickoff to live in three weeks. 100% of members migrated. The platform now runs the gym — the gym doesn't run around the platform.
The owner had paid Exercise.com five thousand dollars and gotten back a rigid template he had to fight every day. He'd spent another five hundred hours trying to build his own marketing site. Members were churning because the booking flow was confusing. Programming lived in a Google Doc that nobody on his team could find.
Adaptive fitness doesn't fit anyone else's template. Athletes have different workflows, different intake, different progression tracking. The off-the-shelf platforms simply weren't built for this.
We started from a 60-minute intake call where we learned how Champions actually works — not how the industry assumes a gym works. Then we built the marketing site, the member portal, the coach-side tools, and the programming library around the gym's actual workflow.
Member migration was done for them. Stripe was wired. The team got trained. We ran a soft-launch with the owner in the room, then shipped it on the date we'd committed to in the intake.
By launch day, the platform wasn't a website. It was operations. The owner stopped fighting his software. The team stopped digging through Google Docs. Members stopped abandoning the booking flow halfway through.
Every month since, when something has been awkward, we've shipped a fix. When something has been missing, we've added it. The platform sharpens with the gym instead of around it.
“Exercise.com took my money and gave me homework. Studiolane built the platform around Champions. There's no comparison.”